Tuesday, March 19, 2024 5:30pm
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The seventh Faculty Pub Night of the 2023-24 season features Evelyn McDonnell, professor of journalism (Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts). She will discuss her recent publication, "The World According to Joan Didion."
About Faculty Pub Night
Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and members of the public are all invited to the 2023-24 series of Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library. Eight LMU professors are selected annually to discuss their latest publication or project in a comfortable setting and format that welcomes diverse perspectives for an inclusive conversation aimed to educate the entire community. All Faculty Pub Nights are free and open to the public.
About the Author's Work
Joan Didion was a writer’s writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life’s telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world, unsentimental critics, and meticulous stylists. An antidote to a global view that narrows our vision to the smallest screens, "The World According To Joan Didion" is a meditation on the people, places, and objects that propelled Didion’s prose and an invitation to journalists, storytellers, and life adventurers to “throw themselves into the convulsions of the world,” as she once said.
Inspired by Didion’s own words—from her works both published and unpublished—and informed by the people who knew Didion and those whose lives she shaped, "The World According to Joan Didion" is an illustrated journey through her life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didion’s eyes and explores her work in chapters keyed to the singular physical motifs of her writing: Snake. Typewriter. Hotel. Notebook. Girl. Etc.
One of the first books to be published after the revered writer’s death in 2021, "The World According to Joan Didion" is a literary companion for those embarking on new journeys and a guide to innovative ways of being. It will radically transform the way you explore the world, and will help you answer the question as you sit in a café, or on a plane or train, pondering the future: What would Joan Didion have seen?
About the Author
Evelyn McDonnell has written or coedited eight books, including "Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl," "Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways", "Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock’n’roll," "Army of She: Icelandic, Iconoclastic, Irrepressible Bjork," and "Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop and Rap." She has been a pop culture writer at The Miami Herald and a senior editor at The Village Voice. Her writing has appeared in publications and anthologies including The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Ms., and Billboard. She teaches journalism at Loyola Marymount University and lives in San Pedro, California.
About the William H. Hannon Library
The William H. Hannon Library fosters excellence in academic achievement through an array of distinctive services that enable learners to feed their curiosity, experience new worlds, develop their ideas, inform their decision-making, and inspire others. More information can be found at http://library.lmu.edu
For more information about this event, contact the Outreach and Engagement team at the William H. Hannon library via email at library.outreach@lmu.edu or call 310-338-5234.
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